Nintendo to open up Wii console

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6248780.stm

FYI

? *lol*

Now is WiiWare a tool and no distribution channel anymore?
Or is it both?
Or is it the nick name of Miyamoto's neighbour?
:

All these news say something but don't tell the whole story...

Well, I guess if Microsoft did well with XNA, then this idea of Nintendo to counter that isn't all that shabby. Just need to learn how to program around the Wiimote. Trouble enough trying to get Blitz games to run with that device, thinking that it can use mouse commands, because of the motion sensivity, as well as the Joy commands, yeesh...

I guess there is a lot more to do than just coding the controller. So will they provide any libs? Is there a seperate IDE? ...

The nice thing about XNA is that it runs both on win (commercial) and xbox360.

Sort of gotta wonder if Sony will get into the act. I mean, you can already use the PSP emulation, as long as you are using the right firmware version for doing so. The PS3 looks like it can emulate and let you do homebrew. However, for Nintendo to get into this, I better hope that there won't be any real bad games or utility programs out there.